God particle

The scientific community, including Stephen Hawkings, has defended the experiment, citing the benefits that will accrue like breakthroughs in the energy area and forming of theories of how the universe was formed and why the world is what it is today. They also defend the expenditure saying the costs involved is much less compared to

what is being spent on the International Space Station. The project director said that clash of protons was already taking place in the upper atmosphere and no black hole had formed there.

Despite all this they cannot be 100 per cent sure of what will happen in case a black hole is formed and the complex machine and experiments go out of control.

They are trying to zoom in on what is called the God particle that matters most and about which scientists admit they know little.

My answer is we should be happy with the way the world is and focus on research that will solve pressing problems such as pollution and global warming. With the likely danger of an atomic mishap -- mind you they are trying to create conditions that existed after the Big Bang -- is it really necessary? Further, all atomic research carries

the great risk of technology passing into the wrong hands for wrong uses like the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japanese cities.

And unlike space exploration we are doing this test right under our feet. And what if God decides that the world shall end the same way it was formed!